In the arid deserts of Ethiopia, a geological marvel has been quietly unfolding since 2005—a 35-mile-long fissure known as ...

Previously, researchers believed that the split would take tens of millions of years, but now scientists say it could happen ...

The Great Rift in East Africa is one of the few spots on Earth being actively separated by tectonic activity and will ...

One of the world's continents is breaking apart faster than researchers previously predicted. The separation would create a ...

One of the world's continents is breaking apart faster than researchers previously predicted. The separation would create a ...

How the Cape Verde hotspot shaped the formation of the Great Lakes region? A hotspot is a plume of molten material rising from the Earth's mantle, which interacts with the Earth's crust and can ...

Ancient hotspot under Great Lakes region linked to their formation Weak lithosphere aided ice in shaping massive lake depressions Study combines seismic data with ...

Prior research has shown that the Great Lakes were formed by ice movement during the last Ice Age—as the ice melted, it filled the lakes with water. In this new study, the researchers found ...

Though the volcano, near Segento, had stopped emitting smoke, residents have fled their homes in fear. Ethiopia lies along the Great Rift Valley– a part of the East African Rift System. This system is ...

It forms a series of rugged hills rising a measly 400 meters above the rift valley. Very unimpressive compared to most ... There is one fissure where strombolian activity formed a row of cones, and ...

Lucy Chemutai from Rift Valley has captured hearts by gifting her mother a mansion as a birthday present After moving to Australia in 2023, Chemutai’s resilience and hard work turned her dreams into ...

A company called Variety Wholesalers wants to buy Big Lots, and customers in the Miami Valley would be happy to keep the stores around. “I think that’s great because I’m not an Amazon online ...